Music. Fashion. Movies. Irresponsible teenage fun. No thanks, I'll listen to talk radio and read in a corner. I missed out on the 1980s, the whole decade, and if I could have a do-over it would be "go back and live it right".

Music. Fashion. Movies. Irresponsible teenage fun. No thanks, I'll listen to talk radio and read in a corner.

I missed out on the 1980s, the whole decade, and if I could have a do-over it would be "go back and live it right".

Rounding out the backlog is a quartet of food links: Contemporary Kitsch: Chefs’ trendy takes on retro favorites inspire a holiday cocktail party — SFGate When it comes to food, sentimentality is the key word. Consider dishes such as deviled eggs, corn dogs and fishbowl cocktails. These aren’t just state fair foods: Kitsch, with a [...]

Rounding out the backlog is a quartet of food links:

• Contemporary Kitsch: Chefs’ trendy takes on retro favorites inspire a holiday cocktail party — SFGate
  

  When it comes to food, sentimentality is the key word. Consider dishes such as deviled eggs, corn dogs and fishbowl cocktails. These aren’t just state fair foods: Kitsch, with a twist, is being served at restaurants throughout the Bay Area.

• Holiday Entertaining: Bon Aperitifs — Whet your appetite with light drinks and snacks — SFGate
  

  If you’ll be setting up a bar for a holiday party in the coming weeks, give some thought to aperitif drinkers like us. In fact, an all-aperitif bar could be your fashion statement this year, with ideas borrowed from some top San Francisco establishments.

  An aperitif — or aperitivo in Italy — is not a cocktail, which rapidly softens all the day’s rough edges, its main mission. An aperitif is an appetite stimulant, sharing etymology with the English word aperture, or opening.

• Mexican standards melt in your mouth — Mercury News
  

  Burritos, tacos and quesadillas are so commonplace in the South Bay that we tend to take them for granted. A meal at El Amigo Burrito in Santa Clara, however, reminds us why these simple dishes have become standards in our casual food repertoire. They’re fresh, flavorful and memorable.

  Everything at El Amigo is cooked to order using Mexican ingredients — from the crumbly fresh cheese, queso fresco, to the tangy cousin of sour cream, crema. Cubes of pork tenderloin are simmered 12 to 14 hours for the tender, spicy chile verde. Rib-eye steak is sliced and grilled on the spot for burritos and tacos. Salsas are freshly cut.

• Grand finales: Dazzle guests with a bevy of divine desserts — SFGate
  

  This year, a rich, flourless Chocolate Walnut Torte, chocolate-iced, multilayered Neapolitan Bars, Brown Butter Pear Tart and Savarin au Rhum will grace our dessert table.

  There’s something for every palate in this selection, and each dessert takes a basic preparation — torte, bar cookie, tart and yeasted cake — to a new level, matching the excitement of the holidays. Best of all, these desserts can all be made ahead in stages, allowing you to focus on other parts of the meal or, even better, on your friends and loved ones on serving day.

Don’t know about you but I’m getting hungry.

Why a Steelpan Tribute to the Ramones? Why not? Imagine 14 punk rock classics ripping through your speakers at warped speed, complete with 1-2-3-4 count offs, chants and shout outs in pure punk, fist raising abandon, all performed on the steelpans (or steel drums) strait from the islands! Beating out speedy Ramones’ anthems like “Blitzkrieg [...]

Why a Steelpan Tribute to the Ramones? Why not?

Imagine 14 punk rock classics ripping through your speakers at warped speed, complete with 1-2-3-4 count offs, chants and shout outs in pure punk, fist raising abandon, all performed on the steelpans (or steel drums) strait from the islands!

Beating out speedy Ramones’ anthems like “Blitzkrieg Bop”, “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” and “Rockaway Beach”, to the tender love song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” and one dropping “Pinhead” in true reggae fashion on the island style steelpan, “Pan For Punks” takes you on a punk rock journey like never before.

Samples and clips on the site.

I’m pleased to announce the opening of the Project Insomnia Design-a-Logo contest! Yes, now you can have the chance to see your artwork exhibited here on this hugely popular, trend-setting, fashionable Web site as well as countless logo products from Cafe Press. How to enter: Simply let me know you want to enter. I’ll provide [...]

I’m pleased to announce the opening of the Project Insomnia Design-a-Logo contest! Yes, now you can have the chance to see your artwork exhibited here on this hugely popular, trend-setting, fashionable Web site as well as countless logo products from Cafe Press.

How to enter: Simply let me know you want to enter. I’ll provide an upload location.

The prize: Well, the winning entry (to be solely chosen by me) will appear at the top of every page on this site, and will also likely be plastered on t-shirts, mousepads, baseball hats, and whatever other junk I can sell through Cafe Press. I’ll also provide one of these logo items to the winning artist.

Fine print: Your art is copyrighted to you as soon as you create it. However, by submitting it to the contest, you grant me an irrevocable non-exclusive license to use it in whatever manner I may see fit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Photoshopping!

Ever wonder what the fashionable European interior designer was doing in 1974? Neither did I, really, but the photo tour is interesting in an incredibly tacky, don’t-ever-do-this kind of way.

Ever wonder what the fashionable European interior designer was doing in 1974? Neither did I, really, but the photo tour is interesting in an incredibly tacky, don’t-ever-do-this kind of way.